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(MMM') J. G. WILSON.

BLIND. I No. 326,371. Patented Sept. 15, 1885.

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BLIND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,371, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed January 24, 15 .85. (No model.)

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES G. \VILSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Blinds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in blinds of which the slats are strung upon wire or other suitable material, as shown in Letters Patent Nos. 199,948 and 236,651, heretofore granted to me. It was possible to throw such blinds out of their normal position by undue pressure on one of the ends or lateral edges, thus causing them to stick in the grooves in which they run. v

The object of my improvement is to keep the ends or lateral edges of the blinds at right angles with their tops and bottoms, so as to obtain all the advantages of ordinary frame blinds in addition to those springing from their peculiar construction.

Figures 1 and 4 of the accompanying drawings are front views of my blind. Figs. 3 and 6 are sectional views at z z and z z, Figs. 2 and 5. Figs. 2 and 5 are sectional views through :0 x and g 3 Figs. 1 and 4; and Fig. 7 is a modification of one of the end pieces.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The blind is constructed as follows: Wires a, preferably of steel and of a length about equal to the intended height of the blind, are passed through the base (1 at suitable distances apart, preferably about one foot, and in such number as is required by the width of the blind. The ends of the wires are fastened by being turned 11p and driven into the wood, or in any well-known way. Diamond -shaped slats b, which have been previously pierced with holes parallel to their front and rear edges of sufficient size to admit the wires a, I are slipped over the same alternately with distance-pieces f, whose edges may be cut at such an angle as to be parallel to the edges of the slats against which they abut. These distance-pieces may be made of rubber or any other suitable material, and serve to hold the slats at suitable distances apart to admit light and air from without and a view from within, the view from without being obstructed by reason of the upper and lower surfaces of each slat being placed at an angle with the vertical supporting-wires. and the upper edge of each slat being above the lower edge of the slat above it. The top piece of the blind is then placed on the wires in the same manner as the slats, and the wires are securely fastened by any suitable means, such as nuts. thus completed with the exception of the ends or lateral edges, these are trimmed evenly, and a groove is cut in the ends of the slats in the direction of the vertical length of the blind, in each end of the blind, by means of a saw or other suitable device, into which groove is inserted the end piece, 0, which is composed of a thin piece of wood, preferably lance-wood or other suitable material, which leaves the blind elastic; or the end piece, a, by which the blind is made rigid, or the grooved end piece, 0, Fig. 7, may he slipped over the ends of the slats after the same have been trimmed. The end pieces, 0, c, and c, are fastened by glue or in any other wellknown way.

When it is desired to use distance-pieces between the slats,with ends at right angles to the wires or equivalent supports or hands, as shown in the drawings, the slats are countersunk at the holes where the bands are inserted for a sufficient distance on each side to allow the ends of the distance-pieces to be inserted. The method of putting together the blind with these distance-pieces is the same as above described. It is desirable that the ends of the distance-pieces should always be parallel with the portion of the slat against which they abut. The distance-pieces last mentioned are preferably made of wire twisted into spiral coils or tubes.

The blind being What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A blind composed of slats, dist-ancepieces, suitable means for binding the 3. The combination, in a blind,-0i'-slats b, 10 slats and distaiie iieges t'og'eftlje'iffangt 151a distance {\plicesif, Wires a', "and and pieces, 0, piecesfsubsta'nti'ally'as described?" substantially as described.

2. A blind constructed by passing diamondshaped slats alternately with distancepieces' JAS. G. WILSON. over wire or other suitable supports,and supporting theends'of suchslatsat i'igli't",angl's{f" .VV'i'tuSseSz" to their length by end pieces, substautiallyas 1 Jns. D. SINCLAIR,

shown and described. l. OLEARMAN. 

